There is an alternate reality in which cows dominated Russia, instead of the Communist Party. A horrible, dystopian world turned upside-down. A world where nothing makes sense. A world created merely to explain the genesis of an otherwise unintelligible riff on a Yakov Smirnoff joke. A world where a writer has to build a ridiculous premise so that the joke–which is probably not even worth the effort–makes sense. Here is that joke:

Famous human comedian Ya-cow Smirnoff fled Russia and now offers hilarious observations on the differences between Cow-munist Russia and the Free World he lives in now. His best joke is “At Cow-gary Stampede, cows lasso you!”